Made in Montreal

Montreal by John Glassco, DC Books, 1973 Certain books, even certain groups of artists, seem to occur in clusters. Here are three lo...

"And the classic shade/ Of cedar and pine..."                                              1. Some people may think i...

Both my grandfather, John Parker, and his brother, Thomas Parker, were firemen in Montreal; they were born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England...

All of the ancestors have returned and are living quiet lives in Inner Space.   Choirs will fall silent, money will be thrown...

  Map of Montreal from 1910 1 . Looking through an old notebook from 2010 I found a poem I had written about the poet A.M. Klein. Then I r...

I've mentioned Leo Kennedy before, he was a member of the Montreal Group of poets back in the 1920s and '30s. Now we can add this ...

I first heard of the poet Leo Kennedy from John McAuley when he read a poem about Kennedy at The Yellow Door Coffee House; if you check my...